Greetings- One very cool aspect of Flash MX is that it claims to be able to put up little 240x320 pixel web pages onto the Pocket PC systems, so far Casio has licensed drivers(?).
Is this something that is already being done with Shockwave sites & Director graphics? Sorry for the ignorance if this is already do-able...I'm interested in finding out. -Mark Scott J/B Woolsey Associates Graphics that Educate http://www.jbwoolsey.com >Message: 9 >Subject: RE: <lingo-l> My Crystal Ball >Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:17:48 -0800 >From: "Kerry Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Kurt Griffin wrote: >> >> >But, to answer your question, nothing (except for dealing with >> Unicode >> >> Umm, imaging Lingo? 3D? Score recording?<snip> There is a lot you can >> do in Director you cannot do in Flash. >> >Umm, Warren, the question was actually what can you do in Flash MX that >you can't do in Director. Kurt hit the main point for Flash MX--Unicode. >Can't do that in Director. In the next release? Can't say. > >I think Kurt hit the target on another point--Flash is being positioned >as a competitor to HTML, not Director. I saw the hotel reservation >system he mentioned, too, and it's a quantum leap beyond anything Orbitz >or Travelocity has. You have to see it to really appreciate it, but the >first major travel site to put up something like that is going to hit >the jackpot. It is really sweet. > >Back to the main point, though--I think Flash MX is good for the >Director community. It's not going to replace Director. It's going to >give us some competition in the low to low-medium range of Web apps, but >I see that as an opportunity for those of us willing to expand our >repertoire. You, like Kurt, Chris, myself, and a bunch of other Dir >developers, are primarily a programmer, I think. A lot of the changes in >Flash MX makes it more accessible to people like us--coders. I think >when we dig in, we'll be delighted at the goodies in the MX programming >box. > >If Flash MX really takes off the way it could, it could have an indirect >benefit for Director, too. The healthier Macromedia is financially, the >more money they have to spend on Director, even if some of the money >comes from Flash sales. > >(stepping down from his soap box), > >Cordially, > >Kerry Thompson > -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
